Amniotic fluid index for screening late pregnancies

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 348-351

  Seffah, J D ^a   Armah, J O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; GHANA; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; GHANA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0033137286     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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